Youtube, Wetube, We All Scream for Youtube!

Bribery worked slowly before they had Youtube!

A little practical advice to get you back to school with a pocket-full of Youtube videos for a fun day at school.

Short Youtube videos are great for some good old-fashioned bribery...

"Let's see if we can get to our desks and get out our handwriting books in 30 seconds... your time starts.... NOW!"

Then the reward of a 30 second video clip gives everyone a smile.

Not exactly award-winning pedagogy... but it gets you through the day.

But we don't have access to the internet do we? How do we then get our Youtube fix?

There are apparently hundreds of these programs online, but the first one I came across worked- so  I have yet to check out any others. It's at a website called keepvid.com. Now when you go to keepvid, think of a trip to the shopping centre. The big, flash, well-positioned buttons are the ones that cost you (yes you can pay to download the program, no you don't need to). It's much like the big-brand items paying for their premium spot on the supermarket shelves. But you can get it for free if you pay attention and use the less flashy, smaller buttons (think plain, homebrand packaging at the supermarket).

Here's a basic rundown of the instructions... feel free to email me if you are muddled up and I can add screenshots to these instructions for you too...

1. Find the video you want to download in Youtube
2. Open a new tab and go to www.keepvid.com
3. Copy the address from your youtube video and paste it into the box at the top of the keepvid page
4. Click “download” on the keepvid page (the small button next to where you pasted the address of the video- not the big flashy "download these videos for free button)
5. Select the mp4 (there may be more than one of them) file from the list and download it (I use mp4 files, you may want another format from the list)
6. You will need to click "run" to allow the download
7. This MP4 can be stored on a datastock, a  lapop, on the cloud, wherever.

Have fun, and now spending an afternoon on Youtube can be counted as "research" for school. You can thank me later :)